![]() "We're not trying to just be in the storage game where we break even because storage is the only hammer we have to swing," he continued. "Storage isn't super interesting," Logan said. ![]() If companies can successfully layer other products and services on top, that's a more compelling business, said Angus Logan, Microsoft's head of product management and marketing for OneDrive. How to move your OneDrive local storage to another drive.Amazon, T-Mobile test limits of unlimited cloud media.OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box: Which cloud storage service is right for you?.(For more, check out this excellent deep dive into the various storage offerings by my CNET colleague Sarah Mitroff.) Meanwhile, Box offers 10GB and Dropbox 2GB free. Microsoft is only playing catchup with Google Drive, which also offers 15GB of free storage. On the surface, this sounds like the opening stages of another race to the bottom as storage turns into yet another technology commodity. ![]() The pricing updates will take effect in the next month, and current subscribers will automatically be moved to the new prices, Microsoft said. It's dropping the price on 200GB to $3.99 from $11.49. Microsoft also is reducing monthly storage subscription fees for users who don't want Office to $1.99 for 100GB (in the UK, to £1.99/month) from $7.49/month.Office 365 Home subscribers get individual storage of 1TB for up to five people for $9.99/month (in the UK, £7.99/month).Office 365 Personal subscribers get 1TB of storage for $6.99/month (in the UK, £5.99/month).All Office 365 users now get 1 terabyte of storage, up from the previous 20GB allocation.Free storage climbs to 15 gigabytes from 7GB.Microsoft also is raising the storage limits that come with its various Office 365 subscriptions. Just as quickly, though, myriad technology companies are seeking to fill that need with a variety of free and fee-based cloud services.Īnd in the latest installment of what's fast becoming a hard-knocks competition, Microsoft said Monday that it plans to more than double the free storage it offers on its OneDrive cloud storage. Given the growing volume of image, video, and data files, that question can easily become a headache. In the age of the selfie, the point-and-shoot predilections of a smartphone society create a new quandary for people: Where do you put all that stuff?
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